Brief Biography

Sven Eisenhut is a Basel based entrepreneur and Founding Director of photo basel, Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography.

He co-founded photo basel in 2015. The fair runs annually each June during acclaimed Art Basel week and shows roughly 40 international galleries and their represented artists. In addition to the Basel edition, the fair expanded to Berlin. Furthermore, the fair established a truly virtual art fair approach with Berlin based start-up Kunstmatrix.

Sven is a permanent jury member of the entrepreneurial class of his alma mater, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne. He is part of various juries of festivals and fairs, ranging from Lenzburg to Kyiv. 

In addition to planning and executing photo basel fairs, he is busy as a business angel for Artysco and Artdaysworld.